It is one of those subjects that many people don’t like to talk about, which could be why domestic violence is on the increase in Belize. In 2003, one thousand two hundred and forty cases were reported. Of that number fifty point five percent or six hundred and twenty-six of those incidents took place in […]
Armed with a physical description, Belize City Police continue to look for the prime suspect in the vicious attack of thirteen year old Stanwell Arana. The teenager was found unconscious lying in a grassy area behind the Church of Christ building on Elston Kerr Street. Today Arana remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and […]
Police are tonight searching the city for a van and three people believed to be involved in a mid morning armed hold up and shooting near Lord Ridge Cemetery on the Western Highway. According to police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, two men identified as Ernesto Granedos and Daniel Moreno were on their way to […]
In the north, detectives continue to investigate the mysterious death of eighteen year old Mary Enns. Enns, eight months pregnant at the time, had been reported missing on September third by her husband Jacob. But five days later, her badly decomposed body was found floating in the Rio Verde River in the Orange Walk District. […]
An attempted robbery on Ambergris Caye has left the victim hospitalized but the bad guy is in police custody. According to officers stationed in San Pedro, thirty-nine year old Said Juan was in the San Juan area of the town on Sunday night with friends and family but sometime after ten, he was attacked by […]
Most people spend their Saturdays resting and relaxing at home after a hard week’s work. But in late September, over eight hundred volunteers including students, members of scouts and various conservation organizations descended on beaches and riversides all over the country. No, not for recreation, but armed with garbage bags, determined to get thousands of […]
After months of speculation, the contract signed between the Government of Belize and the Carnival Corporation is now in the public domain. And using copies provided by the website “freebelize.org”, the United Democratic Party has launched its criticism of the Musa administration for what they say is the reality behind the details contained in the […]
The buzz in tourism might be centered on cruise tourism these days, but some Belizean entrepreneurs are going against the grain, designing adventure packages aimed squarely at residents and overnight guests. And as the News 5 team found deep in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, one such idea has four wheels, can go just […]
